misstate
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"He's pretty young, I will say. He's 17," the former president said, appearing to misstate his age.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
“When you misstate or frame statistics in a manner that support your view ...” Moore paused, then concluded his thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
“He would sometimes exaggerate, sometimes misstate facts,” Russell said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
One way to shift some of the debt burden onto institutions, Hornsby said, would be to seek "civil penalties for institutions that intentionally misstate student outcomes in order to increase enrollment."
From Salon ● May 8, 2021
Don Christopher can have no motive to misstate, even were he capable of the meanness.
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper
Notably, Colorado’s trial court rejected this line of attack years ago, because it fundamentally misstates what Boulder is trying to do.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Mr. Burke misstates the date the Air France plane was hijacked as July 6, 1976.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Nikola said Milton's social media post "misstates the facts," adding in a statement to Reuters that the proposal to increase its share base could pass without his support.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023
Bauer does not present any compelling argument as to why Thiagarajah’s using a synonym of the court’s own language misstates the court’s findings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
I assume this as possible because Borrow misstates the age of his boy friend in Lavengro.
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
Correction An earlier version misstated the ratio of ‘transgender-related diagnoses’ to diabetes cases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Correction, April 21, 2026: This piece originally misstated that Maska left NewsNation after the 2024 election was decided.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
Correction, April 22, 2026: This piece originally misstated that citrus canker is a viral infection.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
It is all the more necessary to do this as there are few political or social problems, even in England itself, more grievously misunderstood and wantonly misstated.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. by Various
Rosie is especially charming company, misstating her mother’s most crucial instruction as “trust your insects.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“Santander’s decision to broadly market its new stated-income policy, even to dealers with a history of misstating income, led to a significant spike in the number of early payment defaults.”
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2026
In the courtroom, government lawyers actually told Judge Howell that these officials “don’t necessarily understand” legal “terms of art” like reasonable suspicion and probable cause and that they were just misstating the policy.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2025
If you think of immigrants as labor only, you are misstating the point.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Again, Prance, by misstating dates wildly, hoped, says Mr. Pollock, to escape as a mere liar.*
From The Valet's tragedy, and other studies by Andrew Lang
